I strongly believe that this is the answer. It’s impossible to suit everybody’s schedule — it might be inconvenient for you, but as we’ve seen, it suits some others and we did deliberately put the schedule where it is to improve quality of releases, particularly with regard to desktops. I believe you are wrong about NixOS being primarily a server distribution. In the 2024 community survey 95% of respondents use Nix on laptops, desktops, etc., and significantly less use it on any sort of server. If upgrade work only begins on the day of release, or even later, that’s not taking full advantage of the full overlap we already have, so I don’t see any reason to add more to accommodate that. Ideally, release day is the end of your update process, but in any event it certainly shouldn’t be the beginning.
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